Here are a few typical scenarios for training and let’s see which authoring tool would be most appropriate for eLearning development in such situations.
Scenario 1:
A Product Manager says “I want product training for my sales team. And NOW!”
Scenario 2:
A Compliance Manager says “We need compliance training rolled out globally in 13 languages in a month. Is it even possible?”
Scenario 3:
A Director of HR says “My team has lots of content in PPTs. We need to convert this to online courses immediately. But HOW?”
Scenario 4:
A Training Manager says “I need to get my in-house developer team trained on course development as a huge and complicated requirement is coming up. Any suggestions?”
Here is a quick look at when to use which tool:
| Scenario | Need | Solution |
| 1 |
| Articulate |
| 2 |
| Lectora |
| 3 |
| Captivate |
| 4 |
| Flash |
Before selecting the tool for your elearning content development needs, think about what you have at your disposal in terms of the composition of the team and available skill sets. Think about your constraints in terms of nature of content, multilingual requirements and available development time. It’s important to think about what you’re trying to accomplish – your training requirement.
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Informative article. I may add a fifth scenario:
A Training Manager wants his employees to learn new skills and their progress must be tracked and stored. Which tool is the most appropriate for such scenario? Definitely Flash. Even though the other tools can do the job, but they are very limited compared to Flash. The other tools pack the whole course in one SCO preventing them from making use of the Rollup and Sequencing Rules of SCORM 2004. If the objective is to create adaptive content (using Rollup and Sequencing), content developers MUST create separate SCOs since Rollup and Sequencing Rules operate only on an Activity Tree and they are useless if used with a single SCO.
Just to be sure to understand Fadel, “Flash” is a software? could you tell from which developer? Thanks!